Former Prime Minister John Howard also made headlines on April 1 after The New Daily announced that the life of the former Liberal leader was going to be made into a multimillion dollar Hollywood film.

The Guardian's reporter Olaf Priol quoted an expert who believed the "dramatic discovery was likely to blow debate around whether it was Australia or New Zealand who invented the Pavlova “out of the sky".

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